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Geometry and Topology

Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 1167)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
  2. 3-fold branched coverings and the mapping class group of a surface

    • Joan S. Birman, Bronislaw Wajnryb
    Pages 24-46
  3. Differential characters and geometric invariants

    • Jeff Cheeger, James Simons
    Pages 50-80
  4. Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces

    • William M. Goldman
    Pages 95-117
  5. Presentation classes, 3-manifolds and free products

    • Cynthia Hog, Martin Lustig, Wolfgang Metzler
    Pages 154-167
  6. Proper actions on homogeneous spaces

    • Yoshinobu Kamishima
    Pages 168-179
  7. Deformation spaces for seifert manifolds

    • Ravi Kulkarni, Kyung Bai Lee, Frank Raymond
    Pages 180-216
  8. Abelian invariants of satellite knots

    • Charles Livingston, Paul Melvin
    Pages 217-227
  9. A note on an invariant of fintushel and stern

    • Walter D. Neumann, Don Zagier
    Pages 241-244
  10. Handlebodies and 2-complexes

    • Frank Quinn
    Pages 245-259

Keywords

  • Immersion
  • Volume
  • manifold
  • threefold
  • topology

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geometry and Topology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Special Year held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1983 - 1984

  • Authors: James C. Alexander, John L. Harer

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075212

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-16053-3Published: 01 December 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-39738-0Published: 14 November 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8434

  • Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 296

  • Topics: Manifolds and Cell Complexes

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